This is a disturbing story. According to Star Magazine/Radar, Minka Kelly got a crew member fired on the set of the Charlie’s Angels reboot. A source tells Star that a crew member came up behind Minka, slapped her ass and held up a $100 bill. Minka was irate, as you could imagine, and she fumed for a day. When the dude tried to apologize the next day, Minka slapped him, and then I guess producers stepped in and the guy was fired…?

The reboot of iconic ’70s show Charlie’s Angels has been rocked by an incident of sexual harassment, Star magazine is exclusively reporting.

A crew member was fired from the Miami production after he inappropriately touched Minka Kelly, who plays street racer Angel Eve French on the show, which premieres this Thursday on ABC.

The staffer came up behind the 31-year-old actress and slapped her across the rear end while holding a $100 bill in his hand on August 23, an insider tells Star.

“It seems like it was meant to be a joke, but clearly it was inappropriate. Minka was shocked and absolutely irate,” the on-set source reveals. “She was still fuming about it hours later.”

When the crew member tried to apologize to Minka the next day, the ex-girlfriend of Yankees star Derek Jeter slapped him in the face. Television executives had him removed from the production the next day, Star has learned.

“The whole set was buzzing about the incident,” the source dishes. “It was quite a scandal. One day he was there, and the next he was gone.”

The axed worker — whom Star has declined to identify — confirmed there was an incident when contacted but refused to elaborate further, beyond insisting: “It was just a misunderstanding.”

Reps for Minka and the production company behind the remake of the show declined to comment on the scandal.

For the full story pick up the new issue of Star magazine — on newsstands now.

A few things… one, why wasn’t the dude fired immediately after he slapped Minka’s ass and treated her like a hooker? Two, was the $100 bill a really tacky reference to Minka’s late mother, who was a stripper and presumably lived on tips? Three, I don’t like the idea of Minka slapping the dude when he was trying to apologize, but maybe she thought she had to fend for herself if the guy was still there after sexually harassing her. And four, God knows if this is really what went down.

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If it was a reference to her mother, how absolutely incredibly disrespectful and hurtful to Mika to do that!!! He degraded not only Minka but her mother too, and that man would have had flaming hair had he done that to me.

Agreed on all accounts. Slapping him ONE day later? And he wasn’t fired right away? It sounds like they are doing everything for the ratings, to try and save the show. First, her breakup with Jeter – there were rumors that they had broken up a while before and her PR people were trying to hold the news until Charlie’s Angels premiere, as close as possible. Then, there was the rumor she was dating her costar (even cheating on Jeter with him). Now, this? She totally gives a diva-bitch vibe, there was some incident in an airplane, with her dog last year.
Not to mention that throwing her mother under the bus like she did for that Cosmo cover was pathetic. When she began her career, and I know this because I’ve been a FNL fan from the start, she always said that she resented her father for walking out on her and her mom. Now, she changed the story… for better publicity? Because her dad’s still around?
And it’s not like she’s a good actress in the first place.

Any male employee, who will walked up to another female employee, and openly slap her on the ass… in front of other employee’s (which you know there were other men there)… all the while waving a hundred dollar bill in her face. Is doing it to degrade the female.

There is nothing acceptable about it, and for treating her like a whore.

Unfortunately, most men find this type of behavior acceptable now.

That it is fine to openly treat women like whores and then laugh about it.

And if the female says anything about the behavior, she is just being a humorless bitch.

I do not blame Minka for slapping him.

I suspect the only reason he was even “apologizing” was because he was forced to. I don’t buy for one moment he went to her with shame for humiliating her.

He was there cause she complained and ABC is trying to stop a sexual harassment suit.

I also tend to suspect that Minka is probably not the first female that was honored with his shitty personal behavior.

I can easily imagine how lame and shitty a forced apology would be from a guy who had the colossal bad judgement to think what he did would be taken as funny. “I’m sorry, I should have offered you five hundred, right?” I’d bet he didn’t get at all what he’d done wrong and was obviously not sorry at all.

Hi, Taksi!
There was a quote from her, I can’t remember where I read it, because it’s been so long, but I remember her saying that she resented her father for not being there for them, that he didn’t want to settle down because he was on tour with Aerosmith (when she was a kid). Only after she decided to move to LA and he offered her a place to stay is that they started a real relationship. So, when I read her recent interviews, all I can make out of this is that she’s trying to milk this story for sympathy.

What an ass! I’m sure the studio knew about it but told him to go apologize and hoped she would accept it. When she didn’t they probably decided it was easier to replace a crew member and not one of the stars. Plus she could have sued and/or made a stink about it, if they had let her go instead.

I think she is cute!! not super pretty!! She looked horrible in that blue dior dress- jeter dumped her and you think she would sex it up a bit??? Minka annoys me!! she was brough into Charlie’s angels for star power, i am not sure what drew barrymoe was thinking!! the c list actress???? they need to stop with the remakes!! Minka probably enjoying the press on this!!

I would also like more info on his “apology.” He was, I’m sure, forced to do it, and I’m curious if he was smarmy, threatening, degrading, etc. to her when giving said apology. She should have kicked him in the stones.